Environment Artist (Freelance – Remote) at Hogarth Worldwide

Contributed to multiple photorealistic full-CG environments for a high-profile automotive campaign, ranging from rugged off-road trails to urban cityscapes and scenic highways. •Created assets ranging from background props to hero buildings, covering modeling, UV mapping, texturing, look development, and USD publishing. • Utilized procedural modeling, RBD simulations, and high- to low-poly baking to achieve efficiency, realism, and optimization per asset requirements. • Developed imaginary logos, labels, and graphics to support realism in assets and textures while ensuring legal compliance. • Conducted detailed reference gathering and design exploration, analyzing real-world locations. Actively contributed to the design process by working closely with the supervisor, creating blockouts and rapidly iterating on design choices. • Refined pre-existing assets, applying procedural breakup, re-texturing, recoloring, and detailing to improve realism and ensure cohesive integration within the environments. • Managed scene assembly, including layout, scattering, vehicle placement, and camera setups. • Ensured optimization and usability across multiple DCCs and operating systems, including geometry, cameras, and other scene data. • Delivered final images with responsibility for finishing touches, lighting tweaks, rendering, and compositing.